Dezso Laszlo

Dezso Laszlo (23 July 1894-8 June 1949) was a Colonel-General was a Colonel-General of the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II. The Hungarian dictator Ferenc Szalasi appointed him the commander of the army in November 1944 after Szalasi's seizure of power, and he was executed after the war.

Biography
Dezso Laszlo was born on 23 July 1894 in Lovaszpatona, Austria-Hungary, and he joined the military in 1911. He fought against Serbia, Italy, and the Russian Empire during World War I, and he was captured and held prisoner by the Royal Italian Army until the war's end in 1918. In 1919, he became a staff officer in the Hungarian military, and he graduated from the military academy in 1921. During the first years of World War II, he served on the general staff, and he became the commander of the military academy with the rank of Lieutenant-General. On 1 November 1944, Ferenc Szalasi appointed him a Colonel-General after his takeover of Hungary, and he fought during the Siege of Budapest in 1945. In April 1945, he was captured by the United States towards the end of the war, and the Hungarian People's Court sentenced him to death in 1946. In 1949, he was executed by firing squad, and he would posthumously be exonerated in post-communist Hungary.